Matter, dark matter, and anti-matter. In search of the hidden universe (Q643040)

This book is a translation from the original French edition from 2009, which appeared in Editions Dunod, Paris under the title: ``Matières et antimatière -- a la recherche de la matière perdue''. The second part of the French title is similar to the title of the famous book by Marcel Proust entitled: ``A la recherche du temps perdue''. Similarly, the subtitle of Chapter 3 reads ``Some like it hot'', which represents also the title of a famous Hollywood film. The presentation of this popular text is very readable, it contains a lot of pictures, mainly of astronomical objects outside our galaxy, and explains several of the observational techniques and instruments. The main topic is modern cosmology, the relation between dark matter, dark energy, and anti-matter in the cosmos are discussed in details. The book contains almost no formula, even the blackbody radiation formula is replaced by a figure to explain the frequency distribution of the cosmic background radiation.